Monday, December 1, 2014
NICKELODEON (MOVIE THEATER)
A nickelodeon theater in Toronto,Ontario, Canada, circa 1910. Nickelodeons often used gaudy posters and ornamented facades to attract patrons, but bare walls and hard seats usually awaited within.
The nickelodeon was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission and flourished from about 1905 to 1915.
Kinetoscope Vs Kinescope
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.
Kinescope
PEEP SHOW
√A prototype for the Kinetoscope was shown to a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs on May 20, 1891.[1]The first public demonstration of the Kinetoscope was held at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on May 9, 1893.[1]Instrumental to the birth of American movie culture, the Kinetoscope also had a major impact in Europe; its influence abroad was magnified by Edison's decision not to seek international patents on the device, facilitating numerous imitations of and improvements on the technology. In 1895, Edison introduced the Kinetophone, which joined the Kinetoscope with a cylinder phonograph. Film projection, which Edison initially disdained as financially nonviable, soon superseded the Kinetoscope's individual exhibition model. Many of the projection systems developed by Edison's firm in later years would use the Kinetoscope name.
MUYBRIDGE
What were Muybridge's contributions to motion pictures?
What breakthroughs did he make? Why are they significant?
How did his zoopraxiscope advance motion pictures?
Muybridge was able to capture images of the horses running. The series of 24 photographs taken of a galloping horse for his experiments is called "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop", the earliest silent film. The still images captured in quick succession and give the illusion of movement when exhibited in a similar fashion. Thomas Edison cited Muybridge's experiments as one of his greatest inspirations for the invention of the movie camera. He is called the "Father of the motion picture". For this experiment Muybridge devised a fast camera shutter and used a new, more sensitive photographic process, both of which dramatically reduced exposure time and produced crisp images of moving objects.
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